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Ex-Google engineer says Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai share the same trait—it’s the lesson he swears by as a $7.2 billion AI CEO
Arvind Jain, co-founder of Rubrik and Glean, observed Sundar Pichai's rise at Google and identified shared traits among Pichai, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin, including intensity, hard work, and the ability to think beyond conventional constraints. Jain credits Pichai's success with Google Chrome—initially dismissed as a poor idea—for demonstrating the value of 'crazy' thinking over mere effort.
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